‘Green Zone’ Trailer: Bourne in Iraq

The new trailer for Matt Damon’s Green Zone, directed by Paul Greengrass, looks a lot like a Bourne movie, just with a warzone setting and a slightly more talkative and self-righteous protagonist.

Greengrass, of course, directed Damon in The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. He also was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for United 93. Green Zone seems to neatly combine the action style of the former with the political/terrorism gravitas of the latter. Check out the trailer:

Two red flags. First, it looks a heck of a lot like Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies, which I was really disappointed by. And second, Damon’s character. The trailer seems to posit that he’s the only decent man in the military — and can’t stop talking about it.

“I came here to find weapons and save lives!”
“It’s more complicated than that.”
“Well, not to me it isn’t!”

“Chief, we’re here to do a job, the reasons don’t matter.”
“They matter to me!”

“People are dying out there, I want to know why!”

We get it, Matt Damon, you’re a good guy. Stop being annoying.

The movie, which co-stars Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Jason Isaacs, and Martin McDougall, is loosely based on the nonfiction book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. It was supposed to open this fall but a couple of months ago got pushed back to March 12, 2010.

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